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Comment · 24 minutes ago
Colloquial usage and etymology are not the same thing.
Comment · 7 days ago
One had to do some significant hand tuning of config.sys and autoexec.bat to optimize conventional.memory usage for a lot of games in that era (ie. relocating device drivers to extended memory), at least until later versions of MS Dos included the memmaker utility to partially automate the process.

This was tricky enough that folks would pay my barely adult self a consultant's hourly rate to do this for them.

Comment · 17 days ago
Thanks! Looking good now. Interesting exploration.
Comment · 18 days ago
Site is illegible on mobile.
Comment · 25 days ago
>> and will quite happily "love" one individual of a species while being completely indifferent to the death and suffering of the rest of that species.

Similar to how a significant subset of the human population responds to other humans.

Comment · 1 month ago
Fruity Loops is written in Delphi. There was a period in time where because of this, the company said there would never be a Mac version, but eventually one happened with the help of ObjectPascal.
Comment · 1 month ago
>> People don't understand that cigarettes are self-limiting because they literally hurt your throat and lungs. Most people simply can't chain smoke and they need about an hour break in between smokes.

That wildly contradicts the experience of every cigarette smoker I've known across several generations.

Comment · 1 month ago
Good thing they don't apply the same standards to security sandboxes.
Comment · 1 month ago
We really need super impeachment.
Comment · 1 month ago
If someone made a table of one hundred potential targets and rolled ten ten sided dice to pick a row to target, do we blame the decision on the dice, the table, Wizards of the Coast, or the person who decided this was a good way to choose targets?
Comment · 1 month ago
General issue, have observed it on multiple systems. On a long enough timescale, will grow to farcical amounts of memory usage.

Unfortunately, while this is something I've observed through major point releases and on different platforms, there have always been some plugins in use.

UnUnfortunately not enough commonality in configuration or hours in the day to track down if this would happen on a totally clean install...

I'm sure your roadmap is quite extensive, but it would be great if sublime itself could graph or warn when memory usage increased by some specified percentage, or if any particular plugin spikes resource usage.

Comment · 1 month ago
How long did you leave your test running?

Was it sustained use with files open over days / weeks?

(I've been a sublime user for well over a decade, across multiple platforms. Thanks for the downvote.)

Comment · 1 month ago
Flipside, sublime's memory management leaves much to be desired.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you run said software, yes.

If somebody else runs the software, then they are.

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